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Teen murder case hinges on Prozac | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

torontosun.com — “The controversial sentencing of a young Manitoba killer did not go ahead Thursday as planned, but that didn't stop the victim's mother and other advocates from gathering outside the courthouse and decrying the youth justice system as” View full resource at torontosun.com

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Premenstrual Syndrome Can Be Prevented With Low-dose Prozac (Fluoxetine) | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Taking low-dose Prozac (fluoxetine) for a few days during the premenstrual period shows promise in preventing the negative and emotional symptoms associated with PMS (premenstrual syndrome), neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham, England have revealed. PMS affects millions of women globally. The researchers say they have identified an organic cause for PMS. Dr...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Prozac Works By Acting On The MicroRNA | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “The response time to antidepressants, such as Prozac, is around three weeks. How can we explain this? The adaptation mechanisms of the neurons to antidepressants has, until now, remained enigmatic...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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SSRIs and Suicide | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Prozac and suicide: what's going on?Many people think that SSRI antidepressants do indeed cause suicide, and in recent years this idea has gained a huge amount of attention. My opinion is that, well, it's all rather complicated...At first glance, it seems as though it should be easy to discover the truth. SSRIs are some of the most studied drugs in the world. We have data from several hundred rand...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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New Target For Antidepressants Revealed By Animal Study | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “University of Michigan scientists have provided the most detailed picture yet of a key receptor in the brain that influences the effectiveness of serotonin-related antidepressants, such as Prozac...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Animal study reveals new target for antidepressants | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Antidepressants such as Prozac are not instant mood-lifters. But researchers have found clues to the delayed response and common return of depressive symptoms when taking serotonin-related antidepressants. Rather than activating all of the brain's serotonin receptors, as current drugs do, their study suggests there's just one critical serotonin receptor important to relieving depression and anxiet...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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The Hunt for the Prozac Gene | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “One of the difficulties doctors face when prescribing antidepressants is that they're unpredictable.One person might do well on a certain drug, but the next person might get no benefit from the exact same pills. Finding the right drug for each patient is often a matter of trying different ones until one works.So a genetic test to work out whether a certain drug will help a particular person would ...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Why Women Are Drawn To Tales Of Rape, Murder And Serial Killers | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Women are more drawn to true crime books than are men, according to research in the inaugural issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). The true crime genre of nonfiction books is based on gruesome topics such as rape and murder. Many people might assume that men, being the more aggressive sex, would be most likely to find such gory topics interesting...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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2009-09-11 Spike activity | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:round up of psychology and neuroscience posts from ResearchBlogging.org compiled by Cognitive Daily and they're great.Psychiatric Times has a review of a new book called 'Poets on Prozac'....” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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The peripheral attenton deficit of primary psychopaths | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Described as cold, heartless, manipulative, selfish, and low anxiety, primary psychopaths frankly scare the bejesus out of most people including myself. Look at the case of John Wayne Gacy Jr., the American serial killer who took the lives of 33 boys and young men between 1972 to 1978; burying most of the bodies in his crawl space beneath his home. During his sentencing he was quoted to have morbi...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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An Interest in Serial Killers | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “In an earlier post, asperger's awareness for assistance professions, i touched on the importance of professional awareness of certain behaviors in asperger's, and how they can be misunderstood. such misinterpretations, handled improperly, can cause a great deal of havoc in the lives of people with asperg...” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Prozac use up 25 per cent in recession depression (Daily Mirror) | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Doctors wrote 2.1 million more prescriptions for anti-depressants such as prozac last year.” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Accused Cat Killer Released From Jail (CBS4 Miami) | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “A miami-dade judge has ruled that a cutler bay teen accused of mutilating and killing 19 cats can be released from jail. during a hearing wednesday morning miami-dade circuit judge john thornton released tyler weinman into the custody of his parents after being told by a psychiatrist that he posed no threat to himself or to the community.” View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Accused Cat Killer Released From Jail (CBS4 Miami): A Miami-Dade judge has ruled that a Cutler Bay teen accused .. http://bit.ly/1YxtHt